.. _physics-supernovaePopulationIII:

Population III Supernovae
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Class providing models of supernovae from Population III (metal-free) stars---the first generation of stars formed from primordial gas at high redshift. Very massive Population III stars (:math:`M \gtrsim 100 \mathrm{M}_\odot`) may explode as pair-instability supernovae with enormous energy output (:math:`\sim 10^{53}` erg), while lower-mass Population III stars undergo core-collapse. The cumulative energy input from Population III supernovae contributes to the reionization and early metal enrichment of the :term:`IGM`.

**Default implementation:** ``supernovaePopulationIIIHegerWoosley2002``

Methods
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``energyCumulative`` → ``double precision``
   Return the cumulative energy input from Population III supernovae from stars of given ``initialMass``, ``age`` and ``metallicity``.

   * ``double precision, intent(in ) :: initialMass, age, metallicity``

.. _physics-supernovaePopulationIIIHegerWoosley2002:

``supernovaePopulationIIIHegerWoosley2002``
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A Population III supernovae class that computes the energies of pair instability supernovae from the results of :cite:t:`heger_nucleosynthetic_2002`.

**(Default implementation)**

.. _physics-supernovaePopulationIIIZero:

``supernovaePopulationIIIZero``
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A Population III supernovae class that has zero population III supernovae.